UCF Athletics announced it sold more than 15,400 tickets for the Bowl, and projected about 5,000 more Knights fans to show up — in all about 20,000 UCF fans showed up and greatly outnumbered the 8,000 Rutgers fans making the trip.

Thursday’s practice marked the Knights last full practice as a team. UCF’s Sports Knight’s Jeff Sharon caught up with Torrell Troup at the practice, and filed the following report for UCFAthletics.com:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8W_PMrV_ew

Also on the schedule for Thursday are the annual Beach Bash and awards banquet. SportsKnight plans to cover those events tonight and post the videos on UCFAA’s YouTube channel. Of course, we will carry the videos here on KnightNews.com as well.

Here are other SportsKnight reports from the Bay, we just added the one from the Beach Bash we promised above: